Word Finder - anybody

definition

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

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Anybody will do.

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A person of some consideration or standing.

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Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.

Has anybody ever told you that you're beautiful?

There wasn't anybody to stop her.

And if anybody asks you, or if you ask yourself what God is, answer, "God is Love."

Almost anybody could rig up an old boat like that.

There wasn't anybody left in Edith Shipton's life for her to turn to.

Why didn't you tell anybody about the house?

Neither one of them had any place or anybody to turn to.

I'm going to get some of that pate, anybody want anything?

Nevertheless, if anybody could have successfully carried out an anti-Turkish policy, it was certainly Báthory.

It is, in short, applied morality; anybody is a casuist who reflects about his duties and tries to bring them into line with some intelligible moral standard.

Dorothy was a little anxious about the success of their trip, for the way Jim arched his long neck and spread out his bony legs as he fluttered and floundered through the air was enough to make anybody nervous.

I wouldn't want to raise anybody else's children, would you?

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

After making allowance, however, for this deflecting agency, it must be admitted that in the highest quality of the statesman, " aptness to be right," he was surpassed by none of his contemporaries, or - if by anybody - by Sir George Cornewall Lewis alone.

Whenever anybody gives her anything, she points to it, then to herself, and nods her head.

What did it matter to anybody, and especially to him, whether or not they found out that their prisoner's name was Count Bezukhov?

Let him patiently bear hard words, let him not insult anybody, let him not become any one's enemy for the sake of this perishable body..

Longfellow could never be brought to find fault with anybody or anything."

Until recent years the title " prince " was never conferred on anybody except the heir-apparent to the Crown, and his principality is a peerage.

If I have since learned differently, I am not going to tell anybody.

And I will knock the nonsense out of anybody"-- but probably realizing that he was shouting at Bezukhov who so far was not guilty of anything, he added, taking Pierre's hand in a friendly manner, "We are on the eve of a public disaster and I haven't time to be polite to everybody who has business with me.

This creep Hal is hot for me and this is the last place anybody would look.

You're just too kind hearted to tell anybody no when they ask for help.

The best argument in its favour is the improbability of anybody having taken the trouble to forge so bald and awkward a heap of details.

Baronets are not knights unless they are knighted like anybody else; and, so far from being knights because they are baronets, one of the privileges granted to them shortly after the institution of their dignity was that they, not being knights, and their successors and their eldest sons and heirs-apparent should, when they attained their majority, be entitled if they desired to receive knighthood.

Sooner probably than anybody else he realized the far-reaching implications of the theory propounded by Planck.

The men in question claimed to be Christians and to enjoy divine illumination as truly as anybody, and so other safeguards appeared necessary.

Tuesday May 13, 2003 The Guardian Does anybody give a damn whether or not judges continue to dress up in red dressing gowns?

He receives his orders and will marry you or anybody; but you are free to choose....

It's not hurting anybody, all it's doing is helping us.

The leaves are very droopy - has anybody got any suggestions?

We are also superbly located for anybody wishing to try saltwater fly-fishing.

And, there's no reason for the editor, agent or anybody else to think they're anything but garbage.

On the 25th of November Cromwell charged Manchester with "unwillingness to have the war prosecuted to a full victory"; which Manchester answered by accusing Cromwell of having used expressions against the nobility, the Scots and Presbyterianism; of desiring to fill the army of the Eastern Association with Independents to prevent any accommodation; and of having vowed if he met the king in battle he would as lief fire his pistol at him as at anybody else.

If the rites are not properly performed or not performed by the proper person, no relation is considered as established between the deceased and anybody surviving Livy

On the whole, the interpretation which best suits all the passages is that extraneous discourses mean any extra-scientific dialectical discussions, oral or written, occurring in dialogues by Plato, or by Aristotle, or by anybody else, or in ordinary conversation, on any subject under the sun.

Some of them inhabit forests and others the more open country; but setting aside size (which in this group varies from that of a quail to that of a large common fowl) there is an unmistakable uniformity of appearance among them as a whole, so that almost anybody having seen one species of the group would always recognize another.

But the aged archbishop was moved as much as anybody, and tried hard to mitigate such a state of things.

In parts of the state it became impossible to get a jury composed of these small squatters to convict anybody for stealing or killing cattle, and so bad did this become that, in 1892, certain cattlemen formed a small army of mounted men and invaded the central part of the state with the avowed intention of killing all the men generally considered to be stock thieves, an episode known as the Johnson County Raid.

It would therefore be desirable for both parties to remove anybody who was cognizant of the double dealing.

The fact was that Saint-Mars was hard put to it in the prison for anybody who could be trusted, and that he had convinced himself by this time that Dauger (who had proved a quiet harmless fellow) would give no trouble.

The author has no universal medicine of his own (except Pantagruelism) to offer, nor has he anybody else's universal medicine to attack.

He never conceded the postulate, because, though he knew France better than anybody in England except Arthur Young, he did not know her condition well enough.

There is usually a gluten-free option available in the festival village, for anybody who has a gluten allergy.

I have made the address available in case anybody is actually willing to buy these shells.

With a higher backrest and subtle curves for your body, it may be difficult to coax anybody out of it!

This can easily be achieved by anybody on their own, with other beekeepers, or an Association.

Good PR folk are, frankly, thin on the ground and his qualities must surely bewitch anybody in the business world.

And has anybody ever looked into the severity of injuries suffered when a 20-year-old cheeseburger collides with a small child in a car seat?

Has anybody else out there been able to get crystals of RNA or DNA using sodium citrate as the precipitant?